Tumurkhuu “Tumko” Davaakhuu

Tumurkhuu “Tumko” Davaakhuu is the Chief Operating Officer at Portland Audubon - (the largest independent chapter of Audubon) a conservation non-profit organization. Before his full time conservation career, Tumko served as CEO and Board Director of Arig Bank of Mongolia for 12 years.

He is a co-founder and Chairperson of Spirit Mongolia, a community based conservation non-profit that manages a 137,000 hectare (338,534 acre) Legal Protected Area (LPA) in Mongolia as well as Achilles International Mongolia. He also served as the National Coordinator of UN Environment’s Sustainable Finance Roadmap project, co-authored the “National Sustainable Finance Roadmap of Mongolia”, Chairman of the Mongolian Sustainable Finance Association, and Vice President of the Mongolian Bankers Association. Tumko studied Leadership Decision Making at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, earned his MBA in Financial Management at Pace University, and his BA in Applied Linguistics at Otgontenger University.